"I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?"

-- Annie Lennox

#Soul Quotes #Trying Quotes #Calling Quotes

“To cease to love -- that is defeat.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
“Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.”
“Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.”
“If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.”
“When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.”
“One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.”
“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

You may also like:

Annie Leibovitz
Photographer
Chrissie Hynde
Musician
Cyndi Lauper
Singer-songwriter
David Bowie
Musician
Hozier
Musician
Lisa Stansfield
Singer-songwriter
Sting
Musician
David A. Stewart
Musician
Sinead O'Connor
Singer-songwriter